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Backyard Explorer

LONELY PLANET. · Lonely Planet
Pages: 72
Format: Hardcover

The best adventures start at home! You don't need to trek to the South Pole or hack your way through a rainforest to explore our wonderful world. Your own backyard is just waiting to be discovered. Scribble, jot and draw in this brilliant fill-in journal, brought to you by Lonely Planet...
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Silk Scarf Printing & Dyeing: Step-by-Step Techniques for 50 Silk Scarves

Melanie Brummer · Stackpole Books
Format: Print book

Techniques, tips, and inspiration for coloring and printing on undyed or solid-color silk scarves.Information on how different dyes react with different kinds of silk, how to blend dyes to get unique colors and patterns, different dyeing and printing methods, and how to compose eye-catching...
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Furniture Fundamentals - Tables: 17 Projects For All Skill Levels

Robert W. Lang · Popular Woodworking Books
Format: Print book

Build your skills as you build terrific tables!Inside, you'll find step-by-step photos and instruction, plus measured drawings, for 17 tables in a wide range of styles and skill levels (including several handsome pieces you can easily build in a weekend).From simple tapered legs to contemporary...
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Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening: How to Grow Nutrient-Dense, Soil-Sprouted Greens in Less Than 10 days

Peter Burke · Chelsea Green Publishing
Pages: 192
Format: Print book

The Low-Tech, No-Grow-Lights Approach to Abundant Harvest Year-Round Indoor Salad Gardening offers good news: with nothing more than a cupboard and a windowsill, you can grow all the fresh salad greens you need for the winter months (or throughout the entire year) with no lights, no pumps,...
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The Beader's Guide to Jewelry Design: A Beautiful Exploration of Unity, Balance, Color & More

Margie Deeb · Lark Crafts
Format: Book

"Once beaders have mastered the basics and enjoyed bringing others' patterns to life, they're ready and eager to take the next step: creating their own original pieces. Here, finally, is their must-have guidebook to the fundamental principles of visual design. Focusing on jewelry,...
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Washi Wonderful: Creative Projects & Ideas for Paper Tape

Jenny Doh · Lark Crafts
Format: Paperback

STERLING PUBLISHING-Lark Books: Washi Wonderful. Washi tape is colorful; patterned and often translucent paper tape that comes on a roll. Get creative with this collection! This book contains more than fifty projects using washi tape: from packages to home decor items and creating quick;...
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The Ultimate Book of Vegetables: GARDENING, HEALTH, BEAUTY, CRAFTS, COOKING

Editors at Reader's Digest · Readers Digest
Format: Hardcover

The Editors of Readers Digest present the definitive A-Z guide to vegetables and how to grow and use them. This complete illustrated guide to vegetables unlocks the secrets of natures bounty with comprehensive information on the planting, harvesting, and storing of vegetables, together...
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By the Block: 18 Surprisingly Simple Quilts

Siobhan Rogers · Interweave
Format: Print book

Techniques such as log cabins, half-square triangles, or curved piecing, but each project offers a new twist on the traditional methods of piecing and constructing quilts. Some of the quilt blocks are oversized, which help the quilter work efficiently, and the author offers additional timesaving...
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Mini Makers: Crafty Makes to Create With Your Kids

Laura Minter · Guild of Master Craftsman Publications Ltd.
Pages: 159
Format: Print book

You don't need to be an arty creative type to be able to enjoy crafting with your young children. Mini Makers will give you the ideas and the inspiration to experiment with an explore the hugely rewarding world of making and creating together. Paint, draw, print, cut, stick, sew and bake...
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Animal Hats to Knit

Luise Roberts · GMC Publications
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback

Go wild and unleash your creativity. Knit the ferociously fun animal hats featured in Animal Hats to Knit. You will love this menagerie of 20 adorable knitted hats in a whole range of delightful designs, from silly to fierce--to help express your animal instincts. 20 wildly amusing projects...
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DIY Statement Necklaces: Create Your Own Customizable Jewelry--For Less!

Erin Pruckno · Adams Media
Format: Print book

It's time to make a statement with these stylish necklaces!Stand out from the crowd with the beautifully bold jewelry in DIY Statement Necklaces! Featuring step-by-step instructions and photographs for 35 one-of-a-kind necklaces, this jewelry guide shows you how to transform your entire...
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These Islands: Knits from Ireland, Scotland, and Britain

Sara Breitenfeldt · Anchor and Bee
Format: Print book

This book explores sources for wool in Ireland which embrace the slow revolution with ethically-treated sheep, fair-trade wool, and local milling. A step away from the mass-produced acrylics and imported wool blends from other continents to focus once again on knitting with local wool....
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The European Porcelain Tobacco Pipe: Illustrated History for Collectors

Sarunas Peckus · Schiffer Pub Ltd
Pages: 144
Format: Print book

Here is the first illustrated retrospective of the storied evolution and continental acceptance of the porcelain pipe. The history of these beautiful pipes is covered in over 145 brilliant photos and detailed, informative text, from their revolutionary introduction as early objets d'art...
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